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for which reafon I Ihall only mention a 

 few forts that are the beft beai'ers. 



Firft, there are two white forts, the one 

 large and rather long in its make, but the 

 ftalk is fhort ^ the other is lefs, and of the 

 fliape of a button; the pulp ^n' both is 

 white, and fo is the fkin, but they are well 

 tailed ; and many of their fruit will refift 

 the winter's frofts; and that which puts 

 out in the fpring ripens well, v/hich makes 

 them good bearers, but both require 

 walls. 



There is a middle fized blue fig, of a 

 fhort make ; it bears well upon the upper 

 ends of the laft year's fhoots, and many 

 that appear in autumn will live all win- 

 ter ', it is very thin ikinned, and the feeds 

 are not very large, with a rich pulp of a 

 red colour, which renders it a good fruit; 

 put it requires a wall. 



I have feen a large fig of a dark purple 

 colour, has a long make, and large leaves 

 more divided than rnoft others ; it Is not a 

 good. bearer, without much care; for if it 

 is too full of wood, the young branches are 

 killed in the winter, and that fruit which 

 iQomes upon the branches of the fame year 



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